CANBERRA, Australia - being the epitome of a working class Australian with a distinctive focus of wide and gravel face worn by weather and a no-nonsense kept Bill Hunter style application as a player until the end.
He got his break in 1959 when legends Hollywood film "On the Beach" in his hometown of Melbourne.
Hunter appeared in the quirky trio "Muriel's wedding," "The adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the desert" and "" strictly Ballroom. "" He found his audience younger as the voice of dentist that has captured the star of clownfish of the functionality of 2003 animated hit "Of Nemo."
More recently, narrated a documentary on the Australia natural disasters this year and he has two upcoming films.
The prolific star of cinema and Australian television screens died of cancer late Saturday in a hospice of Melbourne, surrounded by family and friends, said his manager Mark Morrissey. Hunter was 71. Colleagues who had recently worked with him were surprised that he had been ill.
"Bill was very appreciated, a gentleman, a source of inspiration for other actors, a companion and a thief," Morrissey said.
Director Baz Luhrmann described Hunter in a statement last week as "go - to iconic actor to synthesize the quintessential Australian-ness."
Correspondent of the BBC Sydney Nick Bryan wrote in 2008 that "Hunter is to Australian films what the Ravens at the Tower of London." Without his presence rondelet, these films would be doomed to fall. ?
Prime Minister Julia Gillard tribute Sunday to a national icon who played a key role in the definition of Australian culture on five decades on screen and the stage.
Face before the weather of the Hunter has become almost ubiquitous on Australian screens since it appeared as a supplement in 1957 in "the shiralee", a film by British manufacturing in Australia.
His real break came as a stuntman in Hollywood "On the Beach" in Melbourne. The film on the survivors of a nuclear war with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire.
"He looked Gregory Peck do 27 takes and thought:"a mug could do this,""ex-wife of Hunter Rhoda Roberts said The Daily Telegraph of Sydney newspaper last week."."
Hunter summarized his own approach to acting in a recent interview to promote his upcoming film of racing, "the cup".
"As long as the Director told me to do and what to say, I was happy." Someone who says there is no more to what is full of (expletive), "Hunter said in a quote published Sunday by his manager."
The Australia National Film and Sound Archive of film programming Chief Quentin Turnour said that Hunter followed in the tradition of Australian actors non-polished Chips Rafferty, who died in 1971, and John Meillon, died in 1989. The Australian public liked to see in the terse and gruff characters with soft hearts they played, said Turnour.
"It is so iconographiquement Australian." It transforms gestures Australian typical, minimalist in a lot of emotional expression, "said Turnour.
Hunter was born on February 27, 1940 and grew up in the State of rural Victoria in South-East of the Australia. He was the son of the owner of a pub in countries that have difficulties which finally ruined. Hunter told the newspaper The Sunday Age of Melbourne in 1994 that he left school at the age of 13 to become a cowboy, known in Australia as a drover, directors of herds of cattle Victoria.
He began to build his career in the 1960s in the dramas of crime of Australian television in which he specialized as a hard character who were generally of the police or criminals.
A herd with a knack attaching hard drinker of recalling the names of the people who expected to be forgotten, Hunter was universally popular in the film industry in which it became a pillar with a few peers.
A career highlight came when he played a cameraman news filmed in Phillip Noyce directed film on media and politics in Australia in the 1950s, "newsfront." Hunter has won awards from the Australian Film industry to 1978 for the role, the first of three such Australian equivalent of an Oscar he earned.
He has also won acclaim for his roles as an army for the failure of major in the drama of war 1981 Peter Weir "Gallipoli," a Justice of the dancing interference in the comedy of romantic 1992 Luhrmann "Strictly Ballroom," father of the bride in P.J. Hogan "Muriel wedding" and an engineer in the company of drag queens openness to Stephan Elliott "Priscilla."
Two comedy "Muriel wedding" and "Priscilla" have been made at the same time in 1994 in different regions of the Australia and required Hunter to have different lengths, a beard one hair and shaved close in the otherthe Internet Movie Database, said.
Hunter also had minor roles in the epic of 2008 of the "Australia" Luhrmann and co-production of miniseries for Australian television U.S. "The Pacific" was released last year.
Hunter recently narrated a documentary on floods and cyclone which were more expensive natural disasters of the Australia this year. He plays the racehorse Australian legendary trainer Bart Cummings and a role of cameo in two movies to be tested later this year.
"red dog," a family film based on a true story Outback, appears in some Australian cinemas in August. "The Cup" is scheduled to be released in Australia in October.
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